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Vote Comparing Nursing Homes, and Seeing Stars - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Residents and family members are surprisingly satisfied with some poorly rated nursing homes. Why is that? Tags: Nursing Home Quality 1 point, submitted 2 weeks ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Finding the Right Home — and Contentment, Too newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — The amenities that adult children think will keep their parents happy in a new facility often don't matter, studies show. Tags: Senior Living 1 point, submitted 1 month ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Old Age in America, by the Numbers - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — A new report paints a statistical portrait of aging Americans. Tags: Aging 1 point, submitted 1 month ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Monitoring Mother - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — New technology is making it possible for adult children to monitor aging parents closely -- perhaps too closely. Tags: home care technology 1 point, submitted 1 month ago by Matt Johnson 34 comments

Vote Hip Fractures: Good News, Wrapped in a Mystery newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Excellent news: The rate of hip fractures among older Americans has declined. Tags: Hip Fractures 1 point, submitted 2 months ago by Matt Johnson 30 comments

Vote No Place Like Home newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — With a change in Medicare reimbursement rates, doctors are making more house calls. Tags: House Calls Medicare Primary Care 1 point, submitted 2 months ago by Matt Johnson 36 comments

Vote When I’m 164 newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — A new book explores the developing science on how long, and how well, humans can live. Tags: Aging Long Life 1 point, submitted 2 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote The Elderly, Through the Eyes of a Geriatrician newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Dr. Jeffrey M. Levine photographs older people who "participate in life." Tags: Aging Geriatrics 1 point, submitted 2 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote In the Doughnut Hole? The Check’s in the Mail newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — The frontrunner for Medicare's most irritating trait just may be the drug benefit's donut hole. This article from the NY Times New Old Age blog explores it. Tags: Donut Hole Medicare Part D 1 point, submitted 2 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Another Reason to Keep Moving newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — A new study adds to evidence that exercise may improve cognition. Tags: Cognition Exercise 2 points, submitted 3 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Screen Time With Mom newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Very interesting look at long distance caregiving from our friends at the New Old Age Blog. Tags: Long Distance Caregiving 2 points, submitted 3 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote A Danger to the Community? newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — This is among the most disturbing stories I've read in, well, ever. Residents of a Minnesota town are protesting a new Alzheimer's Care center saying that it could be a danger to children. Tags: Alzheimer's Disease 2 points, submitted 3 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Details on the Class Act, Pt. 2 newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — The NYT's New Old Age blog gives part two of its series on the CLASS Act. Tags: CLASS Act Long Term Care 2 points, submitted 4 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Details on the Class Act newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — The New Old Age Blog of the NY Times looks at the Long Term Care piece of health care reform. Tags: CLASS Act Health Care Reform Long Term Care 2 points, submitted 4 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Remembering the Last Act newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Children are recorded on video almost from birth. Why aren't the cameras trained on aging family members? Tags: Aging video 1 point, submitted 4 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote The Perfect Excuse - The New Old Age Blog newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Caregivers hold an untrumpable excuse for dodging unwanted obligations. But who dares use it? Tags: Caregiving 1 point, submitted 4 months ago by Matt Johnson 37 comments

Vote Driving While Demented newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — There are new ways to determine whether a driver is safe to be on the road. Tags: dementia Driving 1 point, submitted 4 months ago by Matt Johnson 53 comments

Vote Finding Activities for Parents With Memory Loss - The New Old Age Blog newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — This is a very helpful, quick read. Tags: Memory Loss 1 point, submitted 5 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

Vote Coming Soon: More on the Class Act newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — Yes. Readers had so many questions about this voluntary new insurance program that quietly became law when the President signed the health care bill, and so many of its provisions are unclear even to its supporters (and insurance agents and executive Tags: CLASS Act 1 point, submitted 5 months ago by Matt Johnson 54 comments

Vote Adult Day Programs: A Reprieve for Families and the Elderly newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com — New Old Age blogger Paula Span looks at Adult Day Programs. Tags: Adult Day Care Adult Day Programs 1 point, submitted 5 months ago by Matt Johnson 0 comments

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